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4 Members Of White Supremacist Group Face Charges In Southern California

Blog note: Jesus indicated that one (of many) signs of the end times or the end of the age grace would be that love for one another would grow cold. Matthew 24:12, “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” This can also be interpreted that lawlessness will abound. This includes violence, murder, terrorism, shootings, knife attacks, car/van attacks, chemical attacks and other similar acts of destructive and evil behavior. Yes, these things have occurred in time past. But consider the frequency, intensity and devastation of these types of attacks and mass school shootings. They are like birth pangs in frequency and intensity. This is just one part of the CONVERGENCE or CONVERGING of signs. End of note.

4 Members Of White Supremacist Group Face Charges In Southern California

Antonia Blumberg. HuffPost. October 24, 2018.

Federal prosecutors have charged four members of the Rise Above Movement

Federal prosecutors have charged four members of the Rise Above Movement, a California-based white supremacist group, with attacking demonstrators and attempting to incite riots at political rallies around the country.

Robert Rundo, the 28-year-old co-founder of RAM, was taken into custody on Sunday at the Los Angeles International Airport. Tyler Laube, 22, and Robert Boman, 25, were arrested Wednesday morning. The fourth man, 38-year-old Aaron Eason, remains at large, authorities said.

The announcement comes just weeks after authorities arrested four other members of the group ― Cole Evan White, Benjamin Drake Daley, Michael Paul Miselis and Thomas Walter Gillen ― in connection with the violence at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. A 32-year-old woman who was among hundreds of counter protesters died when she was hit by a car allegedly driven by a white supremacist.

In the new indictments, Rundo, Laube, Boman and Eason are charged with using “facilities of interstate commerce with the intent to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on riots,” according to a criminal complaint obtained by The New York Times.

Rundo, Boman, and Laube are accused of attacking counter protesters at four political rallies in 2017 ― at a March 25 “Make America Great Again” rally in Rundo’s hometown of Huntington Beach; a demonstration at the University of California, Berkeley, campus on April 15; a June 10 “Anti-Islamic Law” protest in San Bernardino; and in Charlottesville on Aug. 11-12.

According to the complaint, video footage of the rally in Huntington Beach show Laube grabbing and punching a journalist and Rundo assaulting multiple protesters.

Rundo was arrested at the Berkeley demonstration the following month for punching a police officer.

Every American has a right to peacefully organize, march and protest in support of their beliefs ― but no one has the right to violently assault their political opponents. Federal prosecutor Nick Hanna

An affidavit filed in support of the complaint says the men used the internet to coordinate “combat training,” as well as attendance and travel prior to the events, and then to “celebrate their acts of violence in order to recruit members for future events,” according to a statement released Wednesday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is leading the investigation.

“Every American has a right to peacefully organize, march and protest in support of their beliefs ― but no one has the right to violently assault their political opponents,” federal prosecutor Nick Hanna said in a statement. “The allegations describe an orchestrated effort to squelch free speech as members of the conspiracy traveled to multiple locations to attack those who hold different views. This case demonstrates our commitment to preserve and protect the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.”

Rundo and two of the men charged in the Charlottesville case traveled to Europe earlier this year to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday and to meet with members of other white supremacy extremist groups.

In a hearing on Wednesday, the judge deemed Rundo a flight risk and denied him bail, according to The Los Angeles Times. Prosecutors also noted his criminal history and said authorities who searched his home discovered a large framed portrait of Hitler.